Webwasher 6.0.1 Anti-Malware User's Guide - McAfee

Introduction
Chapter 1
Welcome to the User’s Guide Webwasher® Anti-Malware. It provides you with
the information needed to configure and use the Anti-Malware product, which
is one of the products of the Webwasher Secure Content Management (SCM)
Suite.
The Webwasher Anti-Malware product enables you to configure in-depth malware
detection and blocking at the corporate gateway, thus protecting your
network against attacks coming in through Web and e-mail traffic.
The Anti-Malware Proactive Scanning technology detects and blocks unknown
malicious code, as well as potentially unwanted programs, day-zero attacks
and exploits, and neutralizes suspicious script code.
Anti-Malware PreScan filtering technology radically improves performance by
reducing the load sent to the anti-malware engine for virus scanning. First
the Webwasher filters are applied to incoming traffic, only then is potentially
malicious content passed on to the anti-malware engine.
The anti-malware engine and the gateway server are linked via ICAP. They are
not co-resident on the gateway and so offer no single point of failure.
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